Specialty Award Nomination Process

The American Psychological Association Education Directorate awards one certificate recognizing outstanding research in psychological science under the category of behavioral and social sciences or any category related to psychology. The recipient of this award will receive a certificate of achievement.

The Association for Women Geoscientists will provide an Award Certificate to a female student whose project exemplifies high standards of innovativeness and scientific excellence in the geosciences. Special consideration will be given to projects that increase the public awareness of the geosciences, illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of the geosciences, &/or promote the sensitivity to the earth as a global system.

The NASA Earth Science Award seeks to honor the best project with an Earth system science prospective. The award focuses on design, data collection, and the interview process.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would like to provide the students at our regional fair an opportunity to be recognized for their research emphasizing NOAA-related science. NOAA’s “Taking the Pulse of the Planet” award is to be given to one middle or high school project selected from among all general award categories whose research emphasizes NOAA’s mission to understand and predict changes in the Earth’s environment and conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet our nation’s economic, social, and environmental needs.

Ricoh Corporation would like to provide the students at this regional science fair an opportunity to be recognized for their outstanding efforts in addressing issues of environmental responsibility and sustainable development in their science fair projects. This award goes to the individual or team entry, selected from among ALL the general award categories whose principles and technical innovations offer the greatest potential for increasing our ability to grow environmentally friendly and socially responsible businesses.

The U.S. Agency for International Development is awarding one Science Fair Champion exhibitor whose project shows potential in impacting international development. Winning students will be receive a certificate and be promoted on the organizations official Facebook and Twitter handles.

The US Metric Association awards a certificate to the project that best demonstrates consistency, variety and the correct use of metrics to measure quantitative observations. The award seeks to recognize the project in which metric measurements were integrally important to the research.

The Yale Science and Engineering Association Inc. wishes to provide one award at this Regional Fair. It is intended that this recognition be award to the most outstanding 11^th grade student exhibiting in the areas of Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or Chemistry.